Marital conflict in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: an explorative study within the context of community based sociotherapy :Emmanuel Sarabwe, Annemiek Richters, Marianne Vysma, Intervention

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Year : 2018 | Volume : 16 | Issue : 1 | Page : 14--21

Marital conflict in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: an explorative study within the context of community based sociotherapy

Emmanuel Sarabwe¹, Annemiek Richters², Marianne Vysma³
¹ MA student, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, the Netherlands
² Emeritus Professor of Culture, Health and Illness, the Netherlands, Medical Anthropologist, and Consultant, Community Based Sociotherapy Programme, Rwanda
³ Jungian Psychoanalyst and Medical Anthropologist, the Netherlands

Correspondence Address:
Emmanuel Sarabwe
Community Based Sociotherapy Programme, Kigali, Rwanda

This article explores the ongoing impact of the genocide in Rwanda on marital relationships. Its specific focus are genocide related factors that generate relational trauma and the consequences of this trauma for the everyday lives of spouses affected by it. The qualitative study that informs this article was conducted within the context of a community based sociotherapy programme. The factors found to be contributing to traumatic marital conflict are categorised as those related to genocide perpetration and its consequences, refugeehood, victimisation by genocidal violence and its consequences, intermarriages, and being a descendant of a genocide survivor or a genocide perpetrator. Study participants give a relative high prevalence to factors regarding genocide perpetration, while they assume that the prevalence of traumatic marital conflict among the second generation may continue unless sufficient preventive measures are taken.

How to cite this article:
Sarabwe E, Richters A, Vysma M. Marital conflict in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: an explorative study within the context of community based sociotherapy.Intervention 2018;16:14-21

How to cite this URL:
Sarabwe E, Richters A, Vysma M. Marital conflict in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: an explorative study within the context of community based sociotherapy. Intervention [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Mar 23 ];16:14-21
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